The Alien Devices, Farraginous, Obsidian, Zoetic, Etc.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

I have played T for quiet some time now, and Have Identified every Alien Device. List:

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1-Transpace Jumpdrive

2-Jotun Deflector

3-Kytryn Blaster/Launcher

4-Iocrym FC

5-Iocrym Veil

6-Iocrym Repeller

That's a total of six. (not including Heretic Loot) and I'm not even sure if the Repeller is available Before You encounter Iocrym. Now, I don't Know about you, But in my mind there should be Way Way Way Way Way more Alien Weapons to Find and defeat the Iocrym With, Instead of Having to try and get some of the other Viable end-Game Human Weapons.(Which Are Awesome, But Alien Stuff is so much Cooler..)

I was just thinking, that with all the Randomized names for the Alien Devices, One could easily add half-a-dozen or more NEW alien Weapons.

I'll probly start a post in shipyards documenting this, Seeing as I already have many Ideas: Like the Shenlong Lancer, Kytryn Plasma Rifle, Aura DarkCannon, Phantom Weapon, Black Matter Launcher, Furie Cannon, Etc. Etc. Etc.

So, I was wondering, Why Aren't there already more Alien Weapons/Devices?
I know that there is only one Alien Faction You encounter, But In my mind a Roguelike Can Always use more Guns, Especially if the Guns are of Alien Origin.

[PM]

What for? The humans are locked up in their nature preserve. The point of part I is to break out of the QZ jail. If too many alien items are in part I, what names will be left when part II comes? Too many items and the names get recycled. Identification is a pain when that happens.

With that said, I like to see part II so I can start blasting aliens with graviton and singularity weapons, and equip new devices that make level X stuff look like junk. (I bet dark matter weapons will be a part III deal.)

[RPC]

Yeah.. It would be a let down if the Alien Races of the Galaxy were peace-loving and started disarmament a few million years ago....

[Drako Slyith]

I think that considering there are about 16 weapon types and ~10 are used in part I, then I think George will be introducing new weapon types, because otherwise there will be about 3 weapon types for each part II and part III.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

@PM: I was only thinking of about five or six more, Although I have Ideas for Around ten. I think that Aliens Probly would have lived in the QZ zone Before (or even During) Humans Say "Evolved" or "Appeared" or Were "Created By Domina" or whatever, So they could have left some more Relics. Half a dozen wouldn't be that much of a pain. That's what I think, anyway.

Random Thought: I bet several Alien races did in fact, Disarm. Those ones probably joined into one Giant Borg Collective With Giant Drones to protect them(sorta not disarmed, But if you don't atleast have protection, You just get hosed by those who have Weapons).

Also, Off the top of my head, I can think of these Aliens/Powers: Kyrtryn, Iocrym, "Tan-Du-Dorem Folks,(Araurarch, what I call them), Heirodules, Domina, Oracus, and... That's it.

Wait, Are the Jotun a Species? That twould truly be awesome. The Jotun Holy Empire, Or something.

EDIT: Nature Preserve? Like an endangered Species?

[speedofsquid]

I though the Jotun deflector was associated with Thor's Wondrous Devices, like someone brought in an alien artifact, and the Thor's techs bolted on improvised interfaces.

[Amilir]

@PM: I was only thinking of about five or six more, Although I have Ideas for Around ten.

Now, I don't Know about you, But in my mind there should be Way Way Way Way Way more Alien Weapons to Find and defeat the Iocrym With, Instead of Having to try and get some of the other Viable end-Game Human Weapons.(Which Are Awesome, But Alien Stuff is so much Cooler..)

As a rule, when you want to use the 'That wasn't what I meant' argument, there should be some ambiguity in the statement you're modifying. In this case, you would need one or no 'Way's to be believable, though toning it down to just two or three would be a start.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

Oops. You got me there. Well, I do Want Way, Way, Way, more Alien weapons, But on Seeing PM's suggestion, I realize that five or so is cool.

[Atarlost]

Note that neohuman tech is often listed as alien. Like the Kytryn Blaster, which the Teratons manufacture.

Jotun is a norse mythological term and so is probably similar: poorly labeled Ringer or Teraton crap.

[Aury]

The kytryn is infact reverse engineered alien tech.

[Atarlost]

Ah, but everything above thermo is based on technology provided by the Iocrym according to the first contact monument fluff.

[Resident-Pyromaniac]

I'm thinking that the Humans have seriously expanded on the Iocrym Information. Thus, Lamplighter, Ares Plasma Cannon, Qianlong Archcannon, etc.

[Ttech]

Also I don't know but I think it could be the Icorym are doing the quarentine in secret, it certainly has happened before in history and we are learning from the technology left being destroyed / left behind. Maybe?